File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9806, message 42


Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 06:54:21 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: WhatAboutDreyfus?


Stuart R Elden wrote:

> I take Dreyfus
> to be suggesting that AI might enable us to get computers to think how
> they
> think we think, but not how H/D argues we think.

Stuart, I'm not sure what you said here. I may be misreading you. Sounds
like you are saying that Dreyfus is suggesting that AI miht enable us to
get computers to "think" at all..."think" meaning think the way Dasein
thinks. If this is the case, then you are indeed wrong on this point.
Dreyfus has built his entire career around the proposition that
computers don't think, and may never think. Of course saying this
entails a lot of discussion about what thinking is, but Dreyfus defines
what computers currently do (rule-based calculation) as something
entirely different than what people do, thinking-wise. Perhaps that is
what you said anyway, and I just missed your point here.

Michael Staples




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